Self-Driving Car Developers Challenged by Extreme Weather Conditions

Challenging weather conditions make it tough for human drivers, and even more so for those working on the autonomous robotic cars and trucks.

Each of the sensor, camera or mapping programs supplement the others, but in severe weather, one of those systems could be negatively impacted — a camera could be caked in ice, for example.

Jim McBride, Ford’s technical leader for autonomous vehicles said “the redundancies are key: If the car can detect ice-slicked roads through its sensor suite, or through vehicle-to-vehicle or vehicle-to-infrastructure communication, it can activate the proper electronic systems that are already on vehicles to react.”

Read more of the original article at The Detroit News.

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